One of my favorite perquisites of working for a large company resulted from serving on a Community Affairs Committee for AMD . AMD at that time had a solid reputation in all the communities in which we operated as a company that “gave back ” to the community. We had a team of professionals who received and evaluated requests for money and in-kind donations as well as volunteers and that team made choices and recommended to a group of executives (including me) how AMD should respond. The professionals serving on this team were so good that we as a committee mostly just rubber stamped their recommendations. Another of our duties as committee members was to represent AMD in photo ops with the non-profits we supported so I have numerous photos of me handing a huge oversized check to some executive director or board chairperson. In the photo shown here Karin Dicks one of the professionals I was talking about and I flank Father Jaime Case, then the Executive Director of El Buen Samari